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Modern medical advance and pharmaceutical innovation have wrought much to be thankful for. The difference between the barely efficacious means my father had to alleviate his severe asthma and those at my disposal that deal so effectively with the condition he passed on to me and I to my children is but one small example of what we today have to be thankful for in this regard. But not in every particular has progress been benign. There are some with drawbacks.
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Kalter, H. (2010). Disease Medication and Teratogenesis. In: Teratology in the Twentieth Century Plus Ten. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8820-8_13
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